Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 2 | In other words , everyone should be aiming to meet the requirements first time , every time and without errors . |
| 3 | But everyone should be fighting for first team places , especially as we are going to Wembley . |
| 4 | Give the order slowly and clearly — remember , someone may be trying to write down what you say . |
| 5 | ‘ If this stuff is what I think it is , someone may be trying to turn Benny into what the people here would call a zombi . ’ |
| 6 | Food and drink , sleeping bag , pile of books , transistor radio — well , you never know : someone may be broadcasting up there . |
| 7 | Certainly we 're concerned that someone may be going around educational establishments and we 're appealing for anyone else who may have seen this man to get in touch with us . |
| 8 | Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups . |
| 9 | If he does , someone should be facing the axe at the end of this season . |
| 10 | ‘ But surely someone should be carrying the can for everything that 's gone on . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Are you ’ , I continued , ‘ unable to lay your hands on familiar domestic objects , and have you come to the conclusion that someone must be moving them ? ’ |
| 12 | But kernels are available , so someone must be producing them . |
| 13 | Someone must be writing a book . |
| 14 | Someone must be lying on it . |
| 15 | ‘ Someone must be doing it . ’ |
| 16 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 17 | He looked around , as if afraid that someone might be listening to their conversation . |
| 18 | Anything of a supposedly unmentionable nature she gave added emphasis to by leaving a little pause , peering suspiciously around her as though someone might be listening , then saying the word , or sentence , in a theatrical stage-whisper . |
| 19 | The most obvious signs that someone might be sniffing are : |
| 20 | Er and if someone isn someone might be getting into bed and and not intending to have sex then that 's fine as well . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , someone might be flying to Calgary tomorrow morning , ’ I suggested . |
| 22 | People were totally amazed that , in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century , someone could be living in such materially deprived conditions , alone , with no water on tap and no electricity , on an income of barely £5 a week — and that she could rise above it with such dignity , inner tranquillity and gentle philosophy . |
| 23 | ‘ Someone could be waiting outside the door . ’ |
| 24 | Beware someone could be spying on your activities . |
| 25 | We pledged our identities , secure in the conventions of our trade ; that someone would be watching . |
| 26 | ‘ We also wanted to make sure someone would be collecting her in Germany . |
| 27 | Endill remembered that this was the place where someone would be waiting to meet him . |
| 28 | And should he ever make a sequel , he 's been warned — someone will be watching very closely . |
| 29 | Here and there someone will be reading a newspaper . |
| 30 | Now usually someone will be reading the Sunday papers , another will be bowling at his five-year-old son . |